https://blog.lentic.de/tags/msdf/ Recent content in Msdf on fahersto's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.lentic.de/posts/textrendering/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.lentic.de/posts/textrendering/ Text rendering One of the latest additions to my OpenGL game engine is text rendering. TIt took more effort than I expected, and that&rsquo;s why this article exists. The OpenGL standard does not define text rendering. This was surprising to me at first, because while OpenGL is a low-level graphics API, rendering text seemed pretty low-level to me. Boy was I wrong. To ensure the correct placement of individual glyphs, a number of variables must be taken into account, as shown in the following figure: